Santo Domingo de Acobamba District

Santo Domingo de Acobamba Aqupampa
District
Country	Peru
Region	Junín
Province	Huancayo
Founded	September 6, 1920
Capital	Santo Domingo de Acobamba
Government
•  Mayor	Isaias Felipe Grabel Cano
Area
• Total	778.02 km2 (300.40 sq mi)
Elevation	2,200 m (7,200 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	8,157
• Density	10/km2 (27/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	120135

Santo Domingo de Acobamba District is one of twenty-eight districts of the province Huancayo in Peru. ^[1]

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (71.96%) learnt to speak in childhood, 27.47% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). ^[2]

References

1. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved April 11, 2008.
2. inei.gob.pe Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)